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[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 47 points 2 days ago (9 children)

the liberals got the world they fought so hard for when USSR was dissolved, against the will of the people, and they havent stopped crying about it since

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

in order to combat leftist propaganda lemmy.flatearth is now forcing disinformation onto its communities. The red scare runs deep.

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[–] CutieBootieTootie@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (27 children)
[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Well that's a strawman if I've ever seen one

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (30 children)

THIS is why people have a problem with "tankies."

Budapest, 1956.

[–] CutieBootieTootie@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

Marxist Leninists are defined primarily by two principles:

  • Anti Imperialism / Internationalism
  • Defense and Construction of Socialism

It means that the Soviet Union was chiefly responsible for ending the Holocaust and supporting liberation struggles around the world. It means Cuba was able to transform itself from a strip-farmed slave and prostitution hell into a Democratic republic governed meaningfully by the Cuban people with dignity and education for all. All across east Asia it's secured home rule and governments who meaningfully care and are comprised by regular working and peasant peoples. Marxism Leninism is the historical force which has been shown to be most able to grapple with the complex realities of our world dominated by white supremacy and capitalism, and fought back.

It's the reason that the supposed atrocities commuted by socialist countries are minor compared to the grand historic crimes of empires like France, Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, etc. Mistakes are made and have been made by socialist countries, sure, of course; but they were the first nations to attempt to meaningfully house people for the sake of housing. They were the first projects to successfully overthrow colonialism, and to raise literacy rates to an absurd degree even higher than in the United States today. These socialist projects need to defend themselves because very few other historical forces have shown anywhere near the potential to make a better world.

So call it whatever you like, it'll never erase the monumental good it's done for the world.

THIS is why people have a problem with Anti-Communists

Statistics from 80 days into a ~460 day genocide, Gaza, 2025

[–] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago

Beautiful ✨🥲

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